ICE is kidnapping and locking up little kids, denying them medical care, and feeding them contaminated food. They aren’t going after criminals, they are going after Black and brown people, because this isn’t about immigration, it’s about white supremacy.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

America is quickly reproducing Nazism in place of democracy at the micro and mezzo scale. American Nazism is mainstreaming itself and normalizing

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake? TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

11 Senate Democrats just voted to advance the nomination of a Federal Society judge who used to defend banks and payday lenders: Durbin Gallego Hassan Hirono Kaine Kelly King Klobuchar Reed Rosen Whitehouse

Minnesota, here's a sign to show your support for Somali neighbors. Share it, print it, pass it on. **updated PDF link** PDF here >> www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s89ru...

When writing this piece, I kept thinking back to this Instagram post I saw from a trans woman the other day. This is what I'm talking about. Watch this:

Every moment when I wonder “what will it take?” I have to remind myself “the limit does not exist.”

trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties

Great time to release a good old Nuremberg Trial movie

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.

“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan

St. Paul police brutally assault locals defending their neighbors from ICE, then absurdly accuse the locals of being "professional agitators." "We are not your adversary. We are your police." They support ICE with violence, just as they murder with impunity. They are, in fact, our adversaries.

ICE OUT of our classroom, campus, city, community ❤️‍🔥 we keep us safe. ‘porch posters’ screen-printed by hand. message me to request yours by mail. funds support: the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (ILC MN) and Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid’s @legalaidmn.bsky.social’s Immigration Law Project.

They are still in The area saw them on my way home ten minutes ago. Appears the feds are aiming directly at Minnesota this thanksgiving hoping we are distracted with holiday and unwilling to fight them back.

do anti-trans shit. You know who stopped the Republicans from banning all Medicaid coverage of trans healthcare? A bunch of working class trans journalists, not the only trans legislator. Maybe that should fucking tell you something Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

They turned it off because every grifting ragebait account was discovered to be LARPing.

The federal government is faking evidence in major criminal cases and then lying when caught. In addition to that they are destroying evidence of their crimes against humanity and the population.

Amazing thread on all the ways no one should ever believe anything DHS attempts to say happened to the *cough* stenography journalism *cough*

If you scroll on X, you are only being shown what Elon wants you to see. If you create content on X, no one will see it unless Elon wants them to.

Look, no one wanted to believe it when those of us on the academic and research side of countering authoritarianism told you that the federal government was shooting people and then faking the evidence for it. Whelp here we are. Stop listing to the voices lying to your face about what has happened

Insanity

So at this point it needs to be asked: is there something about being a pedophile that nets you massive wealth and power, or does having a lot of wealth and power somehow turn you into a pedophile? Because these numbers just cannot match the general population.

The Washington Post is an outlet that institutionally serves the ruling class (now more than ever under Bezos) and right now the ruling class is all pedophiles so.............................. Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I’m not sure how one could pull this off alone, this seems very suspect. It seems possible Mr Ge came through jacumba (I don’t recall being aware of people crossing closer to tecate). I remember lots of Chinese folks arriving the days before he was booked by BP.

There is no other way to see national level democrats giving republicans everything they want while telling the base their is nothing they can do to stop them than that they are on the same side. They are fascists.

Guilty until proven innocent

I would be a little more forgiving of takes like this if their answer was “address the economic problems that caused people to abandon the system in favor of a new populist far right” and not “be nicer to Nazis who cheered on cruelty to marginalized people” like c’mon man

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

8 years later and this group is still exposing attendees of the deadly Unite The Right nazi rally.

ICE vs the clergy

Wild graphic on front page of WSJ.

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

This is super bad for US citizens, especially on the left of the spectrum. Gives this authoritarian administration potentially the power to surveil & go after US citizens on spurious "funding of FTO" grounds. This whole antifa boogeyman is being fully weaponized. So dangerous.

Let me show you the difference between a $40 hoodie and a ~$100 hoodie. 🧵

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Whenever Ken Starr returns to the news, it's fun to remember that one deputy investigating Bill Clinton (and Vice Foster) was ... Brett Kavanaugh! Extra fun to remember that GWBush FL Recount team in 2000 included Brett K, J Roberts, AC Barrett. Plus help from FL gov Jeb Bush. Good times!

Trying to piece together footage from the last few months in any coherent way just feels like making a trailer for a horror movie starring the feds...and all things considered, that's probably about where we're at.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

These are the senators who are about to vote to destroy us by caving on the shutdown for nothing in return. You can call and leave a message since it's Sunday, and try again tomorrow when they're open at 9am.

wild that twice this year democrats (in DC + in TX) have reached the threshold of making Republicans feel some pain and just dip lol www.politico.com/live-updates...

From what I have seen so far this does not seem like a good deal:

I assumed that since Schumer asked for such a pathetically low number on the ACA extension (1 year) it would get whittled down to maybe four months and pinky promises. But if this reporting is accurate, they're not even going to try for four months. They're just going to take the pinky promises.

This is going to become very important to try and understand as we move forward into fascism. The parallel prescience of maga as paramilitary and their now more explicit ties to federal agents and agencies should be seen as the threat it is and the indicator for how deeply we are into fascism